DOI: 10.1055/b-002-74271
Lin, Eugene C.; Alavi, Abass: 2009

PET and PET/CT: A Clinical Guide

Print ISBN 9781604061536 · Online ISBN 9781604061543
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Editors: Lin, Eugene C.; Alavi, Abass

Authors: Alavi, Abass; Alessio, Adam M.; Araujo, Luis; Basu, Sandip; Botvinick, Elias; Cheng, Edgar; Coates, Alison; Eary, Janet; Kinahan, Paul E.; Korn, Ronald L.; Lee, Marie E.; Lin, Eugene C.; Mason, Neale S.; McCarville, Beth; Meltzer, Carolyn; Millstine, John; Schmitz, Ruth E.; Song, Guobin; Stanic, Sinisa; Takalkar, Amol

Title: PET and PET/CT: A Clinical Guide

Print ISBN: 9781604061536; Online ISBN: 9781604061543; Book DOI: 10.1055/b-002-74271

Second Edition © 2009 Georg Thieme Verlag KG
Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart

Subjects: Nuclear Medicine, PET, Radiotherapy;Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computed Tomography (MRI, CT)

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Front Matter
I Basic Science
1 The Physics of PET/CT Scanners
2 Basics of Fluorodeoxyglucose Radiochemistry and Biology
3 The Role of Glucose and FDG Metabolism in the Interpretation of PET Studies
II Clinical Basics
4 patient preparation
5 Standardized Uptake Value
6 Normal Variants and Benign Findings
7 The Interpretation of FDG PET Studies
8 The Value of PET/CT
9 Levels of Evidence for Clinical Indications of FDG PET
III Oncologic Applications
10 Oncologic PET by Anatomical Region
11 Therapy Response
12 Brain Neoplasms
13 Head and Neck Cancer
14 Thyroid Cancer
15 Thoracic Neoplasms
16 Breast Cancer
17 Gastric, Esophageal, and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
18 Lymphoma
19 Melanoma
20 Hepatobiliary Tumors
21 Pancreatic Cancer
22 Gynecologic Tumors
23 Urologic Tumors
24 Colorectal Cancer
25 Musculoskeletal Tumors
IV Nononcologic Applications
26 Pediatric PET/CT
27 PET and PET/CT in Radiation Therapy Planning
28 FDG PET in the Evaluation of Infection and Inflammation
29 Neurologic Applications
30 Cardiac PET and PET/CT
Annex